WORK
Circular Interface: Transparency
INFO
Installation
Aluminum Extrusions / Aluminum Connectors / Custom Aluminum Plates / Acrylic / Fresnel Lens / LED Lens / Crystal / Silicone / Glass Condenser Tube / UV Glue / Wrapping Film / Invisible Fiber Optic Cable / Screws / Hooks
80 × 93 × 5 cm
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
2025
DESCRIPTION
Circular Interface consists of eight custom-built structural units. Each unit is assembled from aluminum profiles and CNC-milled aluminum panels forming a nine-grid framework. The front surface of each panel is precisely engraved with the Chinese character for Like (赞), echoing the ubiquitous Like button across social media. The nine grids are joined by multi-screw aluminum connectors, maintaining a strict and modular geometry — the structure resembles both a standardized social-media interface and the barred window of a cell. On the reverse side, a milled circular barbed-wire pattern serves as a visual emblem, hinting at the hidden mechanisms of control behind the interface. Beneath the seemingly gentle surface of social imagery lies a field of surveillance, discipline, and partitioned vision. Together, the eight units form a closed loop — a structural model of algorithmic circulation — enclosing the viewer within the space of the interface itself.
Circular Interface: Transparency is composed of Fresnel lenses, LED optics, silicone erotic objects, and frosted acrylic, forming a multilayered optical interface. The work reflects on the collective obsession with transparency in contemporary visual culture—from the aesthetic polish of social media interfaces to the frosted surfaces of technological devices, and the translucent silicone of erotic commodities. Transparency here becomes the shared skin of desire and power: it promises visibility yet enforces control, exposing while concealing. Through refraction and blur, the work turns transparency into a paradox—an overexposed, over-sensed media body that reveals the fragility of seeing itself.





